Court orders Thai-Cambodia troop pullback

The United Nation's highest court has ordered both Thailiand and Cambodia to withdraw troops from a disputed border area around an ancient Khmer temple - the scene of years of violent clashes.

The ruling on Monday - at a public sitting in The Hague, the Dutch capital where the ICJ is seated - followed Cambodia's earlier request to the court, calling for an immediate withdrawal of Thai troops from the area.

Cambodia in late April launched a bitter legal battle before the ICJ in which it asked for an interpretation of a 1962 ICJ ruling around the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple.

Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay reports from the Thai-Cambodia border.